Poor Lola. The French bulldog, who needs surgery, is lost in Queens — and workers at a Forest Hills pet store bungled her best chance to make it back home.
“She’s my baby. She’s like a daughter to me. She’s not a dog,” said Lola’s distraught owner, Liliana Intrabartolo, 24, who added that she hasn’t slept or eaten since Friday, when Lola fled her family’s house on 74th Street in Glendale.
After scouring the neighborhood, and plastering it with missing-dog fliers, Intrabartolo on Sunday called neighborhood pet stores, thinking maybe someone might bring them a lost dog.
A worker at one, Metro Puppy on Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills, told her yes, someone brought in a dog looking like Lola on Friday afternoon, saying they could not care for her.
But the worker said two store customers immediately took pity on the dog, and took it home before anyone at Metro Puppy could get their names, scan the dog’s ID microchip or check with Animal Care and Control to make sure it wasn’t reported lost.
“The dog was at our place maybe three minutes,” the worker said.
Intrabartolo said she bought Lola several months ago for about $1,200. French bulldogs often sell for $2,000 or more but Intrabartolo said she got a lower price because Lola needs expensive eye surgery.
Intrabartolo said cops at two precincts — the 104th, which covers Glendale and the 112th in Forest Hills — both declined to take her report of missing or stolen property.
But after The Post asked about the case, cops said they would look into the matter.